Overview
Kristin Stephens-Martinez's research lies at the intersection of education and computer science, focusing on using data available in large classrooms. Her focus is on scaling classes, such as how do we add more students to a class without sacrificing quality? She pursues this research by examining data from course tools to find interpretable data-driven insights that inform learning interventions.
She is also the creator and host of The CS-Ed Podcast and writes a blog on teaching.
Office Hours
My office is in LSRC D224. See my class pages' (linked on my website) for this semester's office hours.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
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2024 - Present
Computer Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science
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2024 - Present
Computer Science,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Relationships Between Computing Students' Characteristics, Help-Seeking Approaches, and Help-Seeking Behavior in Introductory Courses and Beyond
Conference Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V.1 · August 3, 2025 Full text CitePrior What Experience? The Relationship Between Prior Experience and Student Help-Seeking Beyond CS1
Conference Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Iticse · June 27, 2025 Background and Context. Prior experience (PE) has been shown to be related to computing students' performance, persistence, and help-seeking behavior. However, most works studied prior programming experience in introductory programming (CS1) courses, while ... Full text CiteRethinking Computing Students' Help Resource Utilization through Sequentiality
Journal Article ACM Transactions on Computing Education · April 2, 2025 Background. Academic help-seeking benefits students' achievement, but existing literature either studies important factors in students' selection of all help resources via self-reported surveys or studies their help-seeking behavior in one or two separate ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Collaborative Research: Characterizing and empowering student success when traversing the academic help landscape
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027IIS: Small: Helping Novices Learn and Debug Relational Queries
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024CUE: Collaborative Research: Effective Peer Teaching Across Computing Pathways
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2023View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of California, Berkeley ·
2017
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley ·
2013
M.S.